Tuesday, April 27, 2010
TWN and JAW
Twelfth Night has Viola in a disguise, underplaying her natural actions, thoughts, and emotions to everyone in Ilyria. Ray is veiled in the same way. He binds himself in the beginning of the movie with his lack of enthusiasm and apathetic tone. Viola cannot reveal who she is because she must stay in the dukes graces as his male companion, even though she is in love with him. Ray and Viola both have something more going on in their heads that each character keeps hidden at first; their love desires. Both characters experience change in their environment and directly cause the people around them to change. Viola causes love triangles and rectangles when she makes Olivia fall in love with her by mistake. Once she shows who she is (a woman) the result is the entire cast coupling off except for Malvolio. In Trona, Ray finds inner peace and outer success whe he gets the girl and saves his hometown. Both stories exhibit insanity with a conjured return to normality.
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I did not even think about this aspect of connection between the movie and the play. That was very insightful. I appreciate your interpretation.
ReplyDeleteA big difference in this connection is that Viola's disguise is purposeful where I don't think Ray's is at all. He doesn't know he's masking who he truly is. I think his disguise has sub-consciously become who he identifies himself with.
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